Garment hanger



Feb. 2 1926.

C. E. NORDENDALE El AL GARMENT HANGER Filed August 26, 1925 Patented Feb. '2, 1926..

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Applicati0n filed August 26, 1925. 8erial 1T0. 52,038.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 'wc.-CnAn1.Es E. N URDEN- DALE and HARRY W. NoRonNoALn, both citizens of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Garment Hanger, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates, generally, to garment hangers or supporters, but has particular relation to a device to be used in homes. restaurants, hotels, and like places, as well as in or on automobile bodies, or the bodies of other closed vehicles for supporting a garment or garments, such as a hat and coat worn by a lady or a gentleman.

The invention has for one of its objects, the provision of a garment hanger, which shall be very simple and inexpensive in con struction, strong, durable, and highly officient in its operation, which may be employed for general use in supporting garments in a' safe and secure manner, yet, so that they will not be injured thereby, but may be quickly and readily removed for use.

Another object ofour invention is, to provide a device in which both hat and coat, or like garments, or either of them can be held thereby.

Still another object is, to provide a finger hold by means of which the element for holding a. hat can be readily moved for enagement. with or release of the hat, and so t at said hold or part will act as a safeguard in holding the coat-hanger, when used, safe and securely in position.

Numerous other objects and advantages of our invention will become apparent from the following description and explanation.

The invention consists in certain peculiarities of the construction,novel arrange ment, and combination of the various parts thereof, as willbe hereinafter more fully set forth and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, which serves to illustrate an embodiment of our invention,-

Fig. 1 is a face View of the completed device, showing its (parts in position for supporting a hat an also a coat or like gar ment.

Fig. 2 is a side View in elevation of the device showing by dotted linesabout the position a hat supported thereby will occupy, the coat or like the hanger therefor.

Fig. 3 is a greatly enlar ed vertical central sectional view throng the casing of the device, and illustrating fragments of the hat holder and coat hanger in about the positions they will occupy when in use, and

Fig. 4 is a face new of a blank out of which the casing is formed.

Like numerals of reference referto corgarment being omitted from responding parts throughout the different views of the drawing.

The casing of the structure is indicated as a whole bythe reference numeral 5, and s shown in Fig. 1 in its complete form, and in Fig; 4 a blank, out of which the casing is made, is. illustrated. Referring to this blank, 6 indicates the bottom of the casing,

which is provided with a pair of spaced openings 7 to registerwith a pair of spaced openings formed in a portion 9 of the blank, which forms the face 9 of the casing when the part 10 is bent upwardly on the dotted line 11, and then horizontally on the dotted lme 12. -By bending the main portion of the casing upwardly on the dotted lines 13 and 14, the sides thereof will be provided, each of which has an opening 15 as 15 evident. Fitted in the openings 15 is a sinall shaft 16 on which a coil spring 17 is mounted and so constructed that one end 18 of said spring will rest against the bottom '6 while the other end 19 will rest against one of the prongs 20 of the hat holding ring 21, which may be of any suitable size and material, but preferably of wire. The prongs 20 of the hat holding ring 21 are twisted together as shown at 22 and slightly that the hat rim, which may be slightly upturned, will be received by the curved 'por-' tion 22, thus offering no injury whatever to the hat or its rim. As shown in Fig. 3 of the drawing, the prongs 20 are provided at their free ends with loops 23, which encircle the shaft 16 and that said prongs are spaced in parallelism as shown in Fig. 1

thereby allowing them to operate in guideways 24 formed by the narrow part 10 and the sides of the casing.

The casing is mounted upon an elongated plate 25 so that the fastening means 26 employed in the holes 7 and 8 will extend through suitable openings in the plate 25 into a wall 27 or other suitable support. This plate is considerably longer than the casin 5 and has at its lower end a pair of upturne spaced lugs 28v which lugs rovide hook-like members/for the support 0 a laterally elongated coat hanger 29 of the well known construction, which may be made of wire and at its middle a pair of strands 30 extended at a right angle to the portion 29 and twisted together, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawing. The free ends of the strands 30 of the coat hanger are bent in o posite directions to each other, thereby a ording arms 31 to rest against the upper surface of the hooks 28 m such a way that the strands 30 will depend from said lugs.

It will be observed by reference to Figs.

.1 and 2 of the drawings that the curved portion 22 of the shank of the hat ring 21 is located so that its upper end will lie, when the hat ring21 is in the osition shown in Fig. 2, slightly above and tween the intermediate space provided between lugs 01' hooks 28 and will thus securely prevent the strands 30 and arms 31 of the coat hook being accidentally dis laced.

Having thus ful y described our invention, what we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is p 1. In a device of the class described,-the combination With a plate and a casing secured to one endthereof, of upwardly extended spaced lugs at the other end of said plate, said end of the plate adjacent said casing, and said casing secured to a support, said casing having a pair of spaced guide, ways between its sides, a hat holding ring hat ring being adapted to normally rest slightly above and between said lugs.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination with a plate and a casing secured to one end thereof, of upwardl extended spaced lugs at the other end 0 said plate, the end of the plate adjacent said casing and said casing secured to a support, said casing having a pair of spaced guide-ways between its sides, a hat holding ring having strands twisted together and extended radially therefrom, the said twisted portion of said strands being curved outwardly from said support and separated near their free ends and pivotally connected to the interior of the casing so as to operate in said guideways, a coil spring mounted transversely in saidcasing and having one of its ends in contact with one of said strands and its other end in engagement with said casing, a coat hanger having extended therefrom at about its middle a shank provided at its free end with oppositely extended arms to engage said lugs, the said curved portion of the strands of the hat ring being located to normally rest slightly above and between the lugs and to aflord a finger hold for releasing the ring and means for preventing an upturned hat rim from being marred or in- 'ured. CHARLEt E. NORDENDALE.

HARRY W. NORDENDALE. 

